How to Say ‘About two hundred thousand pesos’ in Mexican Spanish
Unos doscientos mil pesos
OO-nohs dohs-SYEHN-tohs meel PEH-sohs
[OO-nohs dohs-SYEHN-tohs meel PEH-sohs]
💬 Usage Tip: unos before a number means "about" or "roughly". Same pattern: unas tres semanas "about three weeks".
Phrase Breakdown
Unos doscientos mil
OO-nohs dohs-SYEHN-tohs meel
About two hundred thousand
'Unos' before a number means 'about' or 'approximately'. 'Doscientos mil' is 200,000. Stress: dos-SIEN-tos MIL.
Hay unos doscientos mil habitantes.
There are about two hundred thousand inhabitants.
Words in this phrase
Unos
[OO-nohs]
about / around
Before a number, it means approximately.
Llegaron unos veinte clientes.
About twenty clients arrived.
doscientos
[dohs-SYEHN-tohs]
two hundred
The number 200.
Cuesta doscientos pesos.
It costs two hundred pesos.
mil
[meel]
thousand
The number 1,000; used after other numbers to multiply.
Tengo cinco mil pesos.
I have five thousand pesos.
pesos
[PEH-sohs]
pesos
Mexico's currency; plural of 'peso'.
El viaje cuesta doscientos pesos.
The ride costs two hundred pesos.
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